Their aim, said the report, was to reduce bone splinters in brains sold for food.
One leg was fractured, and bone splinters had pierced his skin.
But he struggled to saw open the skull, handing over his hacksaw to an assistant as the bone splintered, and couldn't find the pancreas.
Mineral remains from other vertebrate species (ungulates, lagomorphs, bats, birds, fish) were also frequently represented by small bone splinters (usually less than 2 cm long), egg fragments and complete elements (teeth, bones, hooves).
The shrapnel sliced through his right eye, went through his sinuses and lodged in the left side of his brain, severely damaging the optic nerve of his left eye and spraying bone splinters into his brain.
A couple tiny bone splinters that I crunched into by accident tasted like chicken gizzard, a pleasing respite from the overall lack of taste, even though I couldn't actually chew them up and swallow them.
Following the discovery of flint and bone splinters in the area in 1862, a series of excavations were undertaken by the French geologist Édouard Lartet and the English banker Henry Christy.
The inchlong piece of steel, part of the artillery shell's casing, sliced through his right eye, tumbled through his sinuses and lodged in the left side of his brain, severely damaging the optic nerve of his left eye and spraying bone splinters throughout his brain.
So he put an ad in the paper looking for customers and found half a dozen, but they didn't eat enough beef to make the venture pay and a woman from town complained that there were bone splinters in the ground beef.
The German club have confirmed that Aubameyang has suffered "bone splintering" in his right toe.
